Week 22—1st John Bible Nerd-Study
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Paraphrase 1 John 1:5-2:2 and read NASB (or ASV vs NASB attached).
1 John (ASV vs NASB)
NASB is the update to ASV. Now you can see some of the differences. I'm especially interested in how the footnotes changed. I did take out the subheadings from NASB. They seemed to have been created in a rush :)
We'll spend the next two weeks paraphrasing before we get to memorizing any further. We've been in these verses so much and it's time to have it flow out of us. Some may want to keep the same style as their paraphrase of 1:1-4. Consider that we'll try to paraphrase the whole letter. So if you're planning on changing styles or emphasis, now would be the time.
We're paraphrasing to help us purpose to touch on each part of a verse. We have considered these verses. We've meditated and memorized. Now we're reading the word and giving "the sense of it" in our paraphrase. After studying we should be able to tell a friend in our own words what we think this means.
But we cannot force it, and we won't have all of the understanding today that we hope to by the end of the year. So all of these paraphrases are adjustable pending further light.
Also, feel free to leave some verses alone if you are really stuck on them. It would really help the whole group if you could post such sections of Scripture so maybe all could help out by sharing their paraphrases of that. While writing (typing) yours out, just put in the actual verse in quotes or some special way (so you can tell the difference) and note the translation reference for that. For example, if my normal translation is NASB and I paraphrase 1:5-10 but I'm stuck on 2:1-2 then after 1:5-10 I'll just copy-paste 2:1-2 from the NASB translation and at the end of it add (2:1-2 NASB). That way I can remember which parts I need to come back to. I have had to do this myself. One of the most difficult sections for me has been 2:3-11 actually. For years I struggled over that part but was having a good time with 1:1-2:2 and 2:12-28 and beyond. If I tried to paraphrase 2:3-11 I could only do some parts of it with a lot of question marks. But once I had a better grasp of other parts of the letter it helped me to unlock some of my more difficult passages.
Looking forward to seeing some paraphrases again! The last ones were very edifying.
Paraphrase 1 John 1:5-2:2 and read NASB (or ASV vs NASB attached).
1 John (ASV vs NASB)
NASB is the update to ASV. Now you can see some of the differences. I'm especially interested in how the footnotes changed. I did take out the subheadings from NASB. They seemed to have been created in a rush :)
We'll spend the next two weeks paraphrasing before we get to memorizing any further. We've been in these verses so much and it's time to have it flow out of us. Some may want to keep the same style as their paraphrase of 1:1-4. Consider that we'll try to paraphrase the whole letter. So if you're planning on changing styles or emphasis, now would be the time.
We're paraphrasing to help us purpose to touch on each part of a verse. We have considered these verses. We've meditated and memorized. Now we're reading the word and giving "the sense of it" in our paraphrase. After studying we should be able to tell a friend in our own words what we think this means.
But we cannot force it, and we won't have all of the understanding today that we hope to by the end of the year. So all of these paraphrases are adjustable pending further light.
Also, feel free to leave some verses alone if you are really stuck on them. It would really help the whole group if you could post such sections of Scripture so maybe all could help out by sharing their paraphrases of that. While writing (typing) yours out, just put in the actual verse in quotes or some special way (so you can tell the difference) and note the translation reference for that. For example, if my normal translation is NASB and I paraphrase 1:5-10 but I'm stuck on 2:1-2 then after 1:5-10 I'll just copy-paste 2:1-2 from the NASB translation and at the end of it add (2:1-2 NASB). That way I can remember which parts I need to come back to. I have had to do this myself. One of the most difficult sections for me has been 2:3-11 actually. For years I struggled over that part but was having a good time with 1:1-2:2 and 2:12-28 and beyond. If I tried to paraphrase 2:3-11 I could only do some parts of it with a lot of question marks. But once I had a better grasp of other parts of the letter it helped me to unlock some of my more difficult passages.
Looking forward to seeing some paraphrases again! The last ones were very edifying.
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